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The Snows of Kilimanjaro from the International Space Station

Love this photo of Kilimanjaro from the International Space Station surrounded by clouds. The photo center point is 3.0° S, 37.5° E. Notice the substantial loss of snow around the summit as compared to yesterday's post with a photograph from November 1990 taken from the Space Shuttle.

Photo of Mount Kilimanjaro from the International Space Station taken July 2001.

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Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it. -- James Ramsey Ullman
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